Social Welfare & Social Services

In Make Me a Mother, acclaimed memoirist Susanne Antonetta adopts an infant from Seoul, South Korea. After meeting their six-month-old son, Jin, at...

The Sandwich Years is the heartfelt, inspirational story of the bond between mothers and daughters, and how one woman - through caring for the pers...

A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple's attempt to adopt a child.But would you take a ginger child? a social worker asks P...

Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online. When Stevies social worker tells Cathy, an e...

This book presents an innovative relational and community based therapeutic model to ensure children's essential attachment needs are catered for i...

'Stella is just like a tiny bird. This is my first impression of her. A quiet little sparrow of a girl.'In her brand-new series 'Thrown Away Childr...

Children who are cared for in an out of home placement are in need of support and stability. This classic text offers information and advice for pr...

Within two decades-if not sooner-at least one in three prisoners in the US will be a senior citizen. Our prisons, however, were designed for a mu...

Social Security (comprising Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) and Disability Insurance (DI)) is the largest single program in the federal gove...

When you decide to foster, you are faced with many difficult decisions, dilemmas and questions: How do you navigate the daily struggles of foster p...

According to the US Census Bureau, about 40 million Americans will be age 65 or older in 2010. By the year 2040, the population of older adults in ...

Long-term services and supports (LTSS) refer to a broad range of health and health-related services and supports that are needed by individuals ove...

Five federal agencies within four departments fund home and community-based services and supports that older adults often require to continue livin...